Example sentences of "[adj] it was [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Sometimes self-discovered methods were used : for example , after an epidemic of lead poisoning in Sheffield in the early 1890s it was noted that those who were poisoned had aborted .
2 In 1880 a further Education Act made schooling compulsory for children between five and ten , and in the 1890s it was established that most elementary education should be free .
3 In 1972 it was realised that this property depended on a separate histamine receptor ( H2 ) which was different from histamine ( H1 ) receptors in the lung and elsewhere , which were responsible for the allergic action of histamine .
4 On March 12 it was announced that legislative elections postponed in December would be held on May 24 ; it was later announced that the number of representatives in the National Assembly would be increased from 77 to 107 .
5 On July 12 it was reported that Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov had been ordered to take measures against officials involved in buying their state-owned dachas ( country houses ) at vastly reduced prices .
6 In Chapter 2 it was argued that some of the most striking features of the post-war development of the British state , at least until the late 1970s , could be explained quite effectively in terms of ‘ corporate bias ’ , that is moves away from the formal structures of democratic ( electoral ) representation towards the representation of major corporate interest groups ( such as the trade unions and employers ' organizations ) , as mediated through the agency of the state itself .
7 In chapter 2 it was suggested that political responses to economic crisis were lagged and variable .
8 In Chapter 2 it was suggested that task-related information should be regarded as central .
9 In AD 531 it was ruled that any words , direct or precatory , would suffice for a bequest ; that legacies should also have the nature of trusts and vice versa ; and that each disposition was also the other .
10 On April 22 it was reported that two Jewish brothers , Eli Swed and Selim Swed , had been released from prison .
11 When Mrs Thatcher took office in May 1979 it was assumed that southern Africa would cause a massive rift between her and the black African states of the Commonwealth .
12 On Oct. 7 it was reported that 46,000 foreigners , the majority of them Romanian nationals , had in the previous three days been refused entry from 27 countries for not fulfilling these conditions .
13 On Aug. 10 it was agreed that five minesweepers would leave for the eastern Mediterranean , but their deployment in the Gulf was ruled out .
14 In the early 1840's it was computed that some 240 or so adult male workers found employment at the mines .
15 All in all , in 1975 it was estimated that some 145,000 persons lived in a mobile home of some type .
16 By 1975 it was estimated that seven per cent of the population would be under fifteen and thirty per cent would be over sixty , compared with twenty-five per cent and twelve per cent respectively in 1938 , ( Charles , 1935 ) .
17 It will be seen that whereas in Reg. v. Derby Crown Court , Ex parte Brooks , 80 Cr.App.R. 164 it was stated that any delay must be unjustifiable before relief by way of stay will be granted in Reg. v. Bow Street Stipendiary Magistrate , Ex parte Director of Public Prosecutons , 91 Cr.App.R. 283 , mere delay giving rise to prejudice and unfairness , it is said , may by itself amount to an abuse of the process of the court .
18 Yes , and my parents had booked the audition for the Central School and found me a bed-sit in Swiss Cottage and being completely naive it was assumed that this was where I would be going .
19 In sections 6.2 and 6.3 it was established that time-dependent potential differences across the secondary and primary windings of a unity-coupled , lossless transformer are in the same ratio as the turns ratio between these windings .
20 On Nov. 18 it was reported that Chadian National Front ( FNT ) fighters had handed over their weapons to the Sudanese authorities on the border under a reconciliation agreement with the Déby government .
21 Office employment was one of the major growth sectors of the economy in the 1950s and 1960s , and by the early 1970s it was estimated that one-quarter of total employment was in offices ( Goddard 1978 ) .
22 In the two ballots held on May 17 it was discovered that some voters had voted twice , and Scalfaro , the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies since April [ see p. 38870 ] , ordered that the voting regulations should immediately be amended ; deputies would be handed a single voting slip as they entered a specially constructed voting booth .
23 On Oct. 17 it was announced that all Yugoslav ambassadors of Slovene origin had resigned .
24 Both Croatia and Slovenia on Jan. 15 refused to comply with the State Presidency 's order , and on Jan. 17 it was reported that republican leaders had met to co-ordinate resistance to a feared military crackdown .
25 In Stoneley v Richardson [ 1973 ] RTR 229 it was held that defective brakes do not have to be proved by an authorised examiner .
26 On June 11 it was announced that nine death sentences had been decreed in the southern town of Shiraz , where there had been disturbances after security forces acted against disabled war veterans holding a rally on April 15 .
27 On April 4 it was announced that all remaining quota limits on the import of foreign cars were to be ended .
28 In Chapter 3 it was argued that pre-colonial society was indeed authoritarian , and that this expressed itself in a great stress on the conformity of the individual , and on a hierarchy of relationships between young and old , between chiefs and people and between men and women .
29 In the Holland Report in 1977 it was argued that young people were no longer employed because they did not fit employers ' needs .
30 Their cultural as well as their economic life could be broadened : in the winter of 1922–3 it was found that more peasant children from families owning draught animals attended school regularly than those without any .
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